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Take a look at yourself.

My neighbor is my friend. My neighbor is my enemy. My neighbor is every man.

Without mind there is no spirit.

I work with neglected, abused and at risk children. I don’t know if I can help you or not but I can try, if you want me to. [It’s not clear to me that you even want help. Why have you placed this in the Christian Debate Forum?] You aren’t alone. Lot’s of people have had a bad childhood. Some...

A simple working definition of “primitive Christianity”. “the early Christian Church as it existed in its original character and organization for about the first three centuries A.D.” Definition of PRIMITIVE CHURCH It is the Church as it existed, in diverse ways, prior to the Councils which...

No doubt about it. Yes. Your response to it in post #232 caused me to wonder if you understood what I meant. Your response in post #234 reinforces my doubt that you did.

Then keep them, but doing-so undermines the good point you were making. You returned to your good point. What is “Primitive Christianity”?

Check, check and check. We’re in agreement on this point.

That’s a good one. Constantine was a politician, not a theologian. He didn’t give a rat’s whisker about the details of Christianity. He wanted the Church to decide on something, anything, to stop the bickering, the division; “the hocus pocus standoff” threatened the stability of the government...

Acts 8:12 is the model I follow.

So let’s (theoretically) throw away the Council of Nicaea, the Council of Constantinople, the Council of Chalcedon. Without them, what do we have? Primitive Christianity.

“Water and the spirit!” - from the OP. H2O accounts for water. What accounts for spirit? Words. “The words I have spoken to you are spirit …” (John 6:63)

If you could jump in Mr. Peabody’s WAYBACK machine and change just one thing in Church history, what would that one thing be? Why would you change it?

The solution for that is to read the history for ourselves. The scholars have access to the pertinent documents. So do we.

I mentioned “Dr. Brown’s question” in post #209. The Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D. didn’t clearly establish tri-personality. I needed to briefly touch upon the Council of Constantinople in 381 A.D. and the “new orthodoxy” / “explicit Nicene orthodoxy” before coming back to the question. Here is...

It was one of the comments he addressed to me in post #217. History. What impression does it make on you?

Well said. I had two passages of scripture in mind that I was anticipating you would, or might, direct my attention to. Another time. I didn’t think you would. Now I know you wouldn’t. I’m not alone in my stand against @Reggie Belafonte. That in itself doesn’t make me right or him wrong...

“No Jew has the Grace of God!” @RLT63 is that something you would endorse? Jesus is a Jew.

There’s too much to respond to in your post in one post, so I’ll pick one. Jesus didn’t say that he himself is the God of the living, nor does he say that the Trinity is the God of the living. The God of the living is his God.

“…we receive all who wish to leave them and embrace orthodoxy as we do Greeks. On the first day we make Christians of them, on the second catechumens, on the third we exorcise them by breathing three times into their faces and and their ears, and thus we catechise them and make them spend time...